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Episode Date: May 2, 2025

JKC Trucking CEO Mike Kuchasrski talks the Trump Executive Order requiring english reading and speaking proficiency to get a CDL, how will that impact? Open phones D62 quiz and more.

The Bill Myer Show podcast is sponsored by Clauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clauser Drilling dot com. Really proud to have Mike Kaczarski here. He's the co-owner and vice president of J.K.C. Trucking. He spent his entire career 30 years trucks, man. There's you forgot more about trucks than most of us will ever know. That'd be fair to say, Mike. Welcome.. Hey thank you for having me on your show yes I've been in

the trucking business all my life my father has been in it and so have I so much so much longer than I thought I'd be. Yeah well trucking is in the news a lot recently here Mike and now JKC it's's refrigerated trucking that's what you do right? Correct what we specialize is we are based here in Illinois we go from the Midwest to the whole West Coast we go Oregon Washington a couple places in California we specialize in LTL which is less than truckload we do frozen refrigerated everything in produce anything that goes to a grocery store or to the restaurant we haul. Okay good to know that and I'm just kind of curious when it comes to the economy,

a lot of times trucking ends up being, if there are ever any canaries in the coal mine, it's people like you, right? You see it first, would that be fair? Talk about that. So yeah, if you want to gauge what the American economy is doing, the trucking is like the heartbeat of the American economy.

So if the trucking is busy the heartbeat of the American economy so if trucking busy that means the economy is busy if trucking is not busy that means the economy is not good so yes you could definitely use the trucking to engage it how's it looking overall in your opinion at the moment what do you think you mean I mean right now right now we give you an idea since food inflation and things COVID you know our food items have gone down with food being so expensive and every other cost going up gasoline and rent insurance etc that a consumer uses you know and trust me I'm a huge consumer I have four little children and a wife you mean people are consuming less because they they don't have enough money you know when you're

all your bills have gone up you have to you know they're literally skipping meals right now and what trucking business right now is dealing with we're dealing with something called buying volatility because everything is so expensive the biomes are down people are not buying and what happens now is when their volumes are low everything goes out to bid and it goes to the lowest bidder which doesn't help the trucking business because then you see if you watch the news trucking companies are going out of business right and left just for this reason because all our costs are up they're paying less and we're just you know

we're praying and holding in there till till better days come soon but technically if you want to wait as of today we're all going out of business all the trucking companies are going out of business I don't care if you're Amazon or a one one one operation truck that's really really, yeah boy, okay that's a little concerning. So the canary in the coal mine is getting a little sick at the moment is what you're saying, is what you're telling me right in reality. Yes, we are waiting for death to come. It hasn't come yet, thank God. Okay, well anyway how can people find out more about the firm and then we'll dig into

the the executive order of President Trump? How do people find out more about the firm and then we'll dig into the executive order of President Trump? How do you find out more about your firm? Yeah, if you want to go to jkctrucking.com to get more information about us. There's also a media button there if you want to check out that or if you're looking to do a career change, looking for a job, go to job, jobs, at jkctrucking.com, just email us. Well, it's about the job part of it that I wanted to talk with you about this morning, Mike, and it has to do with President Trump's executive order. And it's

really not changing the rules, it's just enforcing rules that have already been on the books. And it's if you're going to be a commercial truck driver, you get the CDL, you have to be able to read and speak English. And is that a big deal or what kind of impact will that have on the trucking industry as a whole? I mean certainly I don't know if it would impact you or not, but let us know. No, it's a great question. You know this is the biggest news that's coming along well in the trucking industry. You know this executive order I believe will only make the roads safer for all Americans. Let me break it down.

You know, no matter what country you deliver goods in, okay, it's important to speak and read the local language for safety and compliance. In the U.S., most road signs, safety warning signs, permits, shipping documents, federal transportation regulations are all written in English. When I took my commercial driver's license test, it was always in English. This is not a new concept. So it's, you know, being able to read and understand English

helps ensure drivers to do multiple things. Follow directions, comply with law, avoid accidents, I think the most important one, read delivery instructions, deliver cargo efficiently and safely, and the most importantly, respond appropriately in emergencies. Deliver, deliver cargo if, uh, efficiently and safely.

And the most importantly, respond appropriately in emergencies. You know, let me give you a couple of examples. If you and I are driving in Wyoming at nighttime and somebody starts yelling on the CB, black eyes, black eyes, we have to react. We have to slow down, make sure we don't crash. Other trucks don't crash into us. You know, it's a domino effect. Let me give you another example.

We're still driving at nighttime and drivers are yelling at us, rolled over truck in the middle of the road, full stop. We have to stop. You know, we live in, we're in the city of Chicago and here we have a lot of these signs that read low bridges. You know, if somebody is limited in English, they're gonna get get stuck in that bridge and then I don't know if you remember but How couple years ago this happened in Colorado and Colorado and I think you guys have it too in Oregon

You have emergency runaway truck ramps, right just in case the brakes fail Yeah, the mountains on a big yeah, we got a Yeah, we got a lot of those on the passes, you bet. Yeah, so a truck driver, you know, a few years ago, though, was not educated what this was past several ramps in Colorado and killed multiple people on accident because the brakes failed. You know, this is the gentleman, I think, that got 110 years and all the truckers were, you know, the governor had to get involved in Colorado and bring the sentence down. I think he's only got like 10 years now. You know, this was completely, the guy was not educated.

You know, he didn't know, he didn't understand what the sign was and what it was, it was for us. So all these key communications must be understood. You know, it might be life or death if they are not. And how does truckers, truck drivers carry out a tremendous amount of responsibility on the road. They're not just moving freight. They're sharing the roads with families,

with your children, with our parents. In that environment, being able to read and understand traffic signs safely, instructions and emergency notices isn't optional, it's essential. You know, Mike, it's interesting that you know the rules have not been enforced apparently and this is why President Trump did the executive order. When did the rules stop being enforced? You know in your experience over 30 years in trucking,

you would have had to have noticed that they weren't really paying much attention. When did that start happening, do you know? So it was kind of really weird because like in 2016 if I remember correctly, you know, we had, you could get a visa to America and you could get a CDL and you could drive a truck and then around 2016 the rules changed saying that, listen, there's going to be no more visas available for truck drivers. Everybody has to be a U.S. citizen. They have to have a social security number, and that was around that time. So that's kind of where all the visas went away. And then what's happening is now is that again they started doing the visas again to let drivers in from other countries. And then I want to say around that time,

during last administration, I would say this happened, they've been bringing in all these drivers that speak very and in houses, just to give you an idea, this law is not for the guys out there that are trying to speak English learning. I have drivers that speak broken English too, you know, from other countries, but they're trying and they're learning. These are, this law is concentrated on the guys that speak zero English. You know, like if you ask them, Hey, is your truck on fire? They'll say, oh yes, you know. It's for these guys that speak nothing. Nothing at all. Okay. And who actually determines this? And I bring this up because I'll give you a little side note here. I was reading a story on Oregon

Live, one of our local Northwest newspapers, and there's been a big scandal that broke out because a commercial driving school, Skyline CDL school, with branches in Washington and Oregon is accused of taking stacks of cash in order to give people who are unqualified and skirting the rules false records. They were bypassing the English proficiency standards, which of course is addressed by this executive order, failing to document training hours and all sorts of things. They were being bribed to give the CDLs. And what I'm... now this is all alleged, they're, you know, taken to trial and everything else, but it looks pretty bad. What I've been wondering about though is

that who determines if somebody passes? does the state control this does the state test you on your language or is it is it delegated or offloaded to driving academies and truck driving schools to figure that you have passed the rules what how's this work this is great question I cannot speak for Oregon or Washington but I can tell you what happens in Illinois. We go and you and I go to DMV and say, hey, we want to be CL. The thing we go, we pay, we have to pass a multiple choice test, and then we get a permit, right? And then we have to drive on the permit, and then we come back for a road test, right?

And the road test is all in English and there's an instructor, but sometimes, you know, you could teach a driver enough to, they'll say, okay, the instructor's gonna hop in, he's gonna tell you this, you respond with this. You could kind of almost coach him enough to pass that test. Oh, you teach him to pass the test, but you're not really fluent or really proficient in the language, okay, all right. That's my Okay. That's my guess. That's how these guys are

getting through. You know what I mean? So how's this like it like you said? I mean I'm not no investigator I'm just a small business owner but they are getting through that way and you know what how's this? You know if somebody comes here that that's okay too. That's not wrong because how's this? You come here to support your family you started to learn English and then you learn a lot on the road Just truck driving by itself with the lifestyle. There's so much to learn to be Effective truck drivers take years like solid three years of driving Yeah, non-stop to to learn and obviously where you're learning being a truck driver

You're learning more english and you're bringing it in, you know, how's it? There's there's nobody like asking you at the DMV, hey, sing me the national anthem, eat a hot dog, pledge your allegiance to America. There's nothing like that. What's the New York Yankees? Tell me what the New York Yankees are right now. Yeah, but yeah, it's a handful of times and a driving test and you get it. And that's horrible that they do that at school, you know, because In the in the north northwest the law is pretty tight up there, you know, they're constantly, you know Out out looking about and that happened that's just crazy

Well, let me ask you then as a as a trucking business owner then is this happening because they can't get enough people? You know what I mean? I was just, we're always looking for truck drivers because when COVID was going on, we were always short truck drivers, pre-pandemic, I want to say like 40, 50,000 truck drivers. But now that the volumes have dropped, we're not short drivers.

But if these, the volumes come back to pre-COVID conditions, I pray, and I hope they do soon, we will be short truck drivers again. But the bigger issue is that the demographic of truck drivers is older generation. A lot of these baby boomers are retiring with a lot of truck drivers. And there's new blood coming in. New truck drivers are coming in, but not enough to replace that. And obviously, there's more and more people in America every day. The country's growing. So right now we have too many, and if the volume's increased, we can have not enough. So overall though, we don't have enough to take care of the future.

Do you look at artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles as something to be welcomed? Or is this just still pie in the sky sort of thing? I know they make a big deal. Oh, look at the Tesla truck driving here and look at the other big rig that they actually, I forget the name of it, the one that fraudulently said that it was self-driving and where it is electric truck, electric semi. And remember that guy went to jail, I think, he's just convicted of fraud.

Yes, yes, the Nikola guy, yes, correct. Yeah, yeah. I mean, is the self-driving semi a reality in your view that would take the human element out of it? What do you think? I mean, I was just they're getting there. They're getting there. They used to have a big problem with the self-driving trucks The biggest issue is that the truck would see it's called machine visioning computer visioning or machine visioning It's watching our cameras watching the lines and road and in the trucking industry the lines and road are not always there You know, I mean you have I snow my favorite construction no lines at all so the truck

was kind of blind there now they're like doing multiple things they have radars out there and they're trying to do it with a GPS programming the roads so the truck even knows where the truck is at without even looking they're getting close but the problem is like California already been hey they said okay when driverless happen, we still want a driver in there in the truck just watching it over it. So what's the point of that? Yeah, it's kind of like an airline pilot, you know, a lot of times the airline pilots are really only really flying the plane on landing and takeoff, you know, that kind of thing. You got autopilot.

It's still being how's this? It's still being developed. Is it gonna happen? Yeah. Is it around the corner? No. And then it's so expensive because I was just at a conference

with the Aurora truck guys and the hardware in the truck that they put in is cost almost twice as much as the truck itself as a new truck. Wow. So let's say you spend $600,000 for a AI driving truck and another thing. They're still testing. Like I said, they're running from Dallas to let's say the Phoenix area. That's gonna be kind of like the longest run that road is nice No ice no snow no mountain, you know these short runs it could be great. But yeah, it'll be here

I feel it still needs more time. I'm a big fan of the technology called platooning, where you could take two trucks and link them together. So there's like about five feet between the two trucks. The driver driving the first truck controls the second truck. So whatever the first truck does, the second truck does too. I like this because this will double our capacity.

You know, this technology, it's come from Germany, it's already there. You know, platooning, that's interesting because, you know, that's almost taking a clue from the railroad industry because, you know, it used to be when you had a steam locomotive, you had to have an engineer in every locomotive if you were chaining them together back at that time. And now, you know, multiple units has been around for a long time. So it's kind of like bringing that to the trucking industry. That's fascinating. That's really interesting.

Platooning. Wow. I think that would be faster because how's this? You link the two trucks together, the one driver controls both. There's a small gap between the two trucks. You know, they're going to make it tight so our car can't get in there.

Is it going to be a pain? You know, linking the two trucks and parking them and un-linking them? Yeah. But, you know, in the trucking industry, trucks are breaking down all the time. I say, hey, if you got two trucks, one breaks down, you can continue going with the other. Mike, so I guess the takeaway from this, is the Trump administration's order going to hurt your industry, help your industry, have really no effect at the time being, you know, in your overall view on it? I'm just kind of like wondering what the impact is on your ability to conduct business. I think it will help with these guys that speak zero English and plan to learn any English.

It will definitely help with the safety other than these other laws they put in like hours of service was always put in and they changed it saying that logos will save lives, but it's done kind of the complete opposite because drivers are chasing the clock. I mean, how's this? I think it's going to put a huge dent, maybe. Definitely make it some kind of dent. It's going to be, and then just to give you an idea, back in February, Arkansas already made its own law saying, hey, when you come to our state, we're going to test your

cognitivity. You can't come to Arkansas unless you know how to speak English. And they've done some, if you go on Google, there's videos truck drivers doing this, they get pulled over, you know, the scale and the scale gives them a piece of paper and they say, read this out loud to me. And then after they read it out loud, they gives them a piece of paper, and they say, read this out loud to me. And then after they read it out loud, they give them a piece of paper, and they say, okay, you write something down here for me, and they have to write it down.

It's like a, literally a written test, like you give them a scale. I think that's a little bit too excessive, but that happened way before this happened, you know, just to give you an idea how, how it fed up people are with. So the trend is then, in other words, to crack down on this and get, and get the truck drivers straight

and knowledgeable. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. Mike, I just want to thank you. Thank you for taking the time. I know I'm taking you away from your day job here, and all the best to you at JKC Trucking. We'll get all your information up there. I think we're going to have to have you back on sometime any time we need to talk about

that on the national. How many trucks you actually got on the road at this point in time? Oh man, we got a little under 200 trucks. Okay, hey, appreciate the call. Thanks for being on, all right? Thank you. Thank you so much, man. Right.

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Southern Oregon's place to talk by the way we're gonna have a diner 62 quiz coming up in just a few minutes just listen I'll let you know when to call that's interesting talking with Mike over it you know a big national trucking outlet outfit I was wondering about the Trump administration's deal what that would happen how that would actually work I think I want to reach out to TP Trucking and any of the other local trucking companies, how they're viewing this. And I'd be really curious to find out how Oregon covers this and figures out how someone is, you know, proficient in English or not when they get their CDL, especially given that we have,

you know, apparent bribery going on in some of those big truck driving schools. I don't, not, not, it's not all of them, but this one in Washington and Oregon certainly getting nailed according to the Oregonian. We got to a gentleman, what was your name again in Rogue River? Sorry. Brian. Brian's in Rogue River. Hey Brian, you a former truck driver. How does that work? What are you thinking? It worked out really well with me. I had to medically retire in 2014. But I started with a highly comprehensive program at RCC. And it's a two-month long program.

The scary one is a program that's down in Lake Grove that mainly hauls agriculture. You get your CDL in six hours. Six hours? Oh boy. Yeah. That doesn't exactly sound like a lot of comprehensive training or testing going on there. Not at all and 90% of the instructors that come out of there do not speak a lick of English. How does it work though when you get a CDL? Does the state test you for your English proficiency? Supposedly this is something which has been required already. The Trump administration is just going to crack down on it. How does it work in the real world in your view?

In the real world for me, there was really no question if you could speak English or not. There was really no question if you took you could speak English or not but after further examination some of those tests were given in I Would say 30 different languages All right, the rule says you're supposed to speak and read English But they would give you the trucking test the CDL test in multiple languages that was that would strike me as a problem Wouldn't you think? Yeah, it's a really big problem. I think in the short term we're going to hurt a little bit. Safety is going to go up though. As soon as people figure this out, I think we're going to be all the better for it. I really appreciate your call. It's a former trucker. Thank you very much.

for it. I really appreciate your call. It's a former trucker. Thank you very much. 770-5633. Let me grab another call here. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Hello. Hi, this is me. Cherry, how are you? How is my favorite film critic here on the show? What's going on? Oh, you're my only one, really. I looked at all of the D dish movies and I even get one free but I missed it because I didn't see one lousy movie that I you know is all the same stuff but the North wins I'm almost done with it and I'm sick because it's all it's almost over and they're not gonna have a fourth until 2026 yeah Lindy and I watched the finale of the season three last night and yeah now we're done. It's like it is you know and and many of the same

people in Longmire in it. I just love it. Just great, great story. Well I actually called about a more serious matter. I was talking to my husband in the car and before we knew it he ran a red light and we didn't mean to. It was just boom there it was there he did and that was it. And so a couple of weeks later you know we got the ticket and I think we I was the distraction. We weren't fighting or you know we weren't even having a good time but just talking and all of that. So we got the ticket, paid a lot of money, and got the paper form of the traffic school, which took 11 days to get through because I was reading every word aloud. It was 139 pages and it made me weak because there are so many

bad drivers around here. And I mean, the 20 miles an hour, I know it sounds bad or I mean very slow, but it's one in 10 people will die if you're going 20 if you're going 30 Five people will die and if you're going 40 everybody's gonna die. Well die doing what? Well, just having a crash being a pedestrian a bicyclist a bum Somebody drunk, you know crossing the street. Everybody's got to have the right away in this place. Well, I guess the thing is I'm kind of, especially as pedestrians, if you're... I don't know if I agree with 20. I think 25 was perfectly fine. It's not like we had a plethora of crashes and deaths

in downtown Medford or downtown Grands Pass or anywhere else on a continual basis. I think it's just a little bit of a cult of safetyism. I might have to disagree with you a touch on this, okay? Yeah, I do agree, but it was an amazing wake-up call. They had stories of policemen and regular people who had injuries that were lifelong now, then, and some died after 20 years from the injuries.

And it was just such a moving experience. And I feel like after reading that and going through that traffic school, I'm basically on roller skates now. Okay, thank you, Jerry. 770-5633, hi, good morning. Who's this, welcome. Morning, this is Dave.

Dave, take it away. So I wanna go back to your conversation with Greg Roberts this morning. He's sick and when you get sick with COVID or anything familiar with COVID, you guys take ivermectin. Where do you get ivermectin? Oh, where did I get it? Yeah. Well, should I give up my source? Yes. All right. Now you could get... I am not giving any medical advice. I've made this clear. I have been using injectable ivermectin for years and it's injectable. I got it from a veterinary supply store. You just look them up online.

And what it is, it's 1% ivermectin. So 1 milliliter is 10 milligrams of ivermectin. And that's what I did during the COVID thing. I would just drink it. You know, 20, 30 milligrams. I know doctors may be looking at me like I have two heads, but it works fine. All right? So... Okay, so you can't get it like over-the-counter or it's not in pill form or anything like that? Now, if you want to get it in pill form like that, there are online doctors and physicians. In fact, I think the Wellness Center is one of them and there are several of them out there but they have to give you a prescription because you can't get ivermectin over the

counter in Oregon. Now you can't in Tennessee from what I understand. You can just walk in and just say, hey, I want ivermectin but no, remember Oregon is looking out for your safety. Okay, just understand. And so, but anyway, that's what we were doing during the corona time. In fact, we almost had, there was like an underground railroad of injectable ivermectin, kind of making the rounds that people could just get. And no no farmers have it all over around here but you know they people humans would take it it doesn't taste good and you know if you can get

the pill form is certainly better than but they really made it hard to do in Oregon and so what do you want it's kind of a you know underground railroad what can i tell you? Okay? Yeah, there's a blogger online, Ann Barnhart, who had a great article about ivermectin and she put it out there during the rona time and if you send me an email, I'll just direct you to her website. Okay? Okay, great. I'll write that. All right.

And once again, I am not a doctor. I am not giving medical advice, but if you ask me, that's what I did. Okay? Lots of people did it. Many people in Southern Oregon were doing it all that time during the Rona time. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this?

Hey, this is Tom. How are you doing? Doing fine. Tom, what's on your mind? Well, I think that problem up in the shoot forest with those homeless people up there, yeah, they were supposedly going to be removed. I think it was Wednesday, they were supposed to have been evicted.

Well, I got an idea. You just hand out tranquilizer guns to the loggers, and then you bring them to vans. One says, Donald and Green, the other says rehab. Oh boy, yeah, rehab I think is really what's needed for a lot of them, unfortunately. You have a lot of people in really serious hurt. I don't want to make fun of them on that, I get it.

They're humans, but they are abusing this whole definition of disabled, in my opinion. Exactly, and the system, yeah. This is the scam of getting, oh, we can't move them out of the forest because they're disabled. Why are they disabled? Oh, well, they're drunk disorderly and crazy and addicted to all sorts of illicit drugs. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. You know what I'm getting at? Yeah, Tom? Yeah. Oh, man. Let me grab another call here. Hi. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello? Hello? Hi. Oh, I didn't hear the

screech. That's okay, Holly. How you doing this morning? What's up? I'm good. Josephine County. A couple of things. We're having a Patriots conference tomorrow, our monthly one, 10 o'clock in the morning, Patriots rally we call it now. Oh. And I think it's gonna be interesting. Noah's gonna be coming down. Noah, Senator Noah Robinson will be coming down to talk. Aliva Herrera is going to be on talking about school board issues. We'll probably be talking about what's going on with commissioners. We had another big rally yesterday. I don't know what even to call them anymore. The Progressives, if you want to call them. Now, you have the commies out there for May Day. It's their holiday, okay?

Yeah, pretty crazy. Anyway, there were 200 people on downtown, raising hell again over who knows what. A lot of misinformation still, they still are convinced that Trump's trying to take away Social Security and the usual insane stuff. So tomorrow will be kind of a neat meeting. And then at one o'clock, we're going to have a little Trump drive. People are going to decorate their cars and drive through town, just kind of acknowledging the... Okay. Now there is one thing I would suggest. If you're going to sit around there and talk about the commissioners, okay?

Yep. Please, please, please. Josephine County, stop fighting about this. Please. Yeah, it's stupid. Stop fighting. You know, the fight over the commission, what's going on there, he said, they said, blah, blah, blah. There's only one group which benefits from all of this, and it's those commies that were out there protesting yesterday. Those are the ones that are absolutely loving

this division going on in your county. Okay? And I think most people, Bill, almost everyone knows that. There's just a couple of people that still, you know, have their own personal agendas and they're doing their thing but, you know, people recognize that. Okay. I'm glad to hear that. Thanks for the suggestion there, Holly. Okay. I'm going to clear every call. We'll get back to some open phones here in just a minute because it is a Diner 62 Real American Quiz Time. 770-5633-770K-MED to join in. And we're going to be talking about a little bit of American history. And today you can head over to Diner 62 is Clam Chowder Friday.

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quiz. Oh they delivered me a Denver omelet. I am so happy. So I'm gonna eat that when I get off the air though. Can't eat it right now but the smell is tantalizing. Let me go to the phones here and see who wishes to win. Hi good morning who's this? Hello this is Wymer Mike. Hello, Mike. Hey. It was today, in 1885, Good Housekeeping Magazine debuts in Massachusetts with his bold stated mission, Mike, to produce and perpetuate perfection, or as near unto perfection as may be attained in the household. And with that, an American magazine institution

starts. Now early on, Good Housekeeping published a whole ton of articles on food safety, food problems, including an article about candy being contaminated with asbestos. You know, we think we got problems right now. Asbestos in the candy, that'd be pretty bad, wouldn't it be, Mike? You think about it? Asbestos in the candy? Yeah, yeah. Asbestos in the candy. Yeah, you don't want that. But anyway, they also founded the Good Housekeeping Institute. So anyway, it's still going on. At its peak, Good Housekeeping had five and a half million subscribers in 1966.

How many subscribers today, as of 2024, hard copy, get the magazine still. Is it A, 183,000, B, 275,000, C, 365, D, 548, or E, 730,000? It's one of those five. Mike, hurry, tell me what you want. Um, I'll go with C. You're going to go with C, 365. You know, this is the first time this has happened in quite some time. First person in. Yeah, you got it Mike. 365,000. Slight decline year over year, but to this day readers look to the good housekeeping sealed as a credible endorsement. Okay, very good stuff. Hang on, we're gonna send you to diner 62. We'll have fun. Okay, be right with me. Thanks, bud. All right, 854.

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Your personal journey of epic building security starts at FontanaRoofingServices.com. Hi, I'm Charlene, owner of American Industrial Door, and I'm on 106.7 KMED. Wow, I only have time for one email of the day. We'll do a bunch more on Monday because I have so many people that wrote me about great things, but sometimes it just happens. You run out of time. Here it is. I got a minute left, right? And emails of the day sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point Family Dentistry, centralpointfamilydentistry.com. Great one day crown, same day crown service. They have an in-house lab, you gotta check it out. Good stuff.

And Keith made me laugh here. Keith Greer wrote me and he says, hey Bill, when it comes to local planning, we were talking about this on Highway 62 the other day, right? Bill, why are they building so many car washes in Medford if they want no cars? You know something, Keith?

You seem to have noticed something that the area planners have not noticed. I'm going to give you not only an email of the day, but a real American salute of the day. I just, it, yeah, I think that's really something. I don't know. I just it yeah, I think that's really something I don't know Maybe they just want the development fees and things like that right now and eventually these the car washes will be turned into homelessness encampments under climate friendly equitable community rules I'm only being a little bit sarcastic. I don't know that's a great question

And maybe we'll explore this over the coming days. PFAS we're digging into that we talked about it more on it Monday morning early have a great weekend talk with you then.